John Milton Mackie (19 December 1813, in

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– 27 July 1894, in

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) was a United States writer who specialized in topics from German history and

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Biography

He graduated from

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in 1832, and studied at the

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, Germany, 1833–1834. On his return to the United States, he was tutor at Brown 1835-1838. He contributed articles on German topics to the ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''Christian''.

Books

* ''Life of Godfrey William von Leibnitz'', with

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(Boston, 1845) a
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* ''Life of

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'' in

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's “American Biography” series (1848) * ''Cosas de España, or Going to

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via

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'' (New York, 1848) * ''Life of Schamyl, the Circassian Chief'' (1856) * ''Life of Tai-Ping-Wang, Chief of the Chinese Insurrection'' (1857) * ''From Cape Cod to Dixie and the Tropics'' (1864)

Notes

References

* This work in turn cites ''Andover Theological Seminary 1894-95 Necrology'', pg. 146. Attribution *

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* * 1813 births 1894 deaths Brown University alumni American male non-fiction writers Humboldt University of Berlin alumni People from Wareham, Massachusetts Writers from Massachusetts Historians of Germany Brown University faculty {{US-nonfiction-writer-stub